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Did someone deliberately sabotage the International Space Station?

Not the hole story

NASA TV

By Leah Crane

There was a minor panic in low-Earth orbit last week when flight controllers for the International Space Station (ISS) noticed that air was slowly leaking away into space. The six astronauts on board were instructed to put aside all other work and trace the leak.

They found a two-millimetre hole in a Soyuz capsule docked with the ISS and sealed it up – but now some are saying that the hole could have been deliberate sabotage.

Thought the hole is tiny, if left unfixed it would have leaked all of the …